Rachel Carson & Malaria

http://www.macleans.ca/science/environment/article.jsp?content=20070604_106059_106059

This page has an article that breaks down the history of Carson and how public percption was swindled into glorifying her work despite the greater issues at hand.
"Websites and op-ed pages accuse her of a straight-line responsibility for the deaths of millions of Third World malaria and yellow fever victims since the 1970s. That's when, the critics say, a Carson-inspired ban on DDT destroyed humanity's best defence against the disease-bearing mosquitoes that kill more than a million people every year. Having used DDT in the First World long enough to wipe out malaria there, they add, eco-imperialists now prevent its use anywhere, saving African birds at the cost of African children, malaria's prime victims."
According to her critics, Carson portrayed the scientists as destructive but, in reality , their mission was to defend humanity. In other words, they were playing defense not offense (or being hostile for you lacking a sports mentality). It's funny that when we were inquired about our opinions of her I stayed silent because I had a hunch that she was "guilty" of something. We must spray because a black genocide can't happen. Forget the birds, bugs and all those other creatures. Save the children! Besides, medical conditions in the long-run is better than death or illness in the short-run. This plan beats the average life expectancy for blacks in America the way our lives are going anyhow, especially males. We need to give the young a chance to live and at least grow.
The WHO program gave up on the tropics, but we need a new program and funding to overcome where they failed. "Controlling" the disease means keeping it in tropics. They're Third World and it's not their fault they're infected. Somebody needs to put international heathcare programs on blast then to work.